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A simple but most effective tool to reach young people
Brigitte Pagana-Hammer
Szeged, 20. -22.09. 2006
CISCI
What is CISCI? The Work with CISCI in the Class-room
Available: January 2007
What is CISCI?
CISCI-consortium
10 universities, e-learning and marketing companies,
outreach institutions from Europe and the U.S.A.
Movies and the young generation Moving pictures of any kind are cool, involving, inspiring Movies create trends, and have a broader impact on young
people than any other media
CISCI addresses pupils via teachers as science mediators provides „new“ involving media for use in the classroom
The USP of CISCI
Combination of two involving, exciting and high-impact
media: Movies and Internet
CISCI provides teachers with simple-to-use, just-in-time,
well-prepared lessons with movie scenes and video clips
as „anchor“ for the lesson in the classroom
CISCI: part of the NUCLEUS Cluster
Science on Stage International Festival- Journal: Science in School- European Science Educational Portal:
Xplora
Content unit of CISCI Movie:
Title, year, producer and director Description and website Link to trailer site and corresponding DVD Scientific topic and subject
Movie scene: Video clip or time interval of scene on corresponding DVD Author and editor of content unit Title and description of scene Scientific keywords Basic (10+ yrs) and advanced (14+ yrs) explanation, scientific background
information for teachers
Deep Impact (1998)- Production: Dream Works, Paramount- Director: Mimi Leder- Actors: Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah
Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan
Freeman, Maximillian Schell
Description of movie scene:
A comet slams into the Earth As a comet passes through the atmosphere it becomes a giant fiery ball When it hits the ocean it produces a mega-tsunami (around 400 m in height in
the film) The tsunami reaches and devastates New York City and Washington and
floods vast coastal areas
Explanations and scientific descriptions: Structure and origin of comets Scientific descriptions of impacts of comets and asteroids on Earth Shown scene of impact and its devastating effects in the shown movie scene are
essentially scientifically correct
Comet Hale-Popp in 1997 Core of comet Wild 2
Tsunamis
The word Tsunami in the image above is represented by two Japanese characters. The top character in the image above, "tsu”, means harbour, while the bottom character, "nami”, means "wave The name comes from the observation of Japanese fisherman who returned to their harbour finding it totally
devastated, although they have not noticed anything out in the sea
This created a huge explosion, where one can study:- What are some basic properties of the comet: how is its surface formed,
how dense is it, how strongly is it held together and how massive is it?- What is he composition of the comet?- Can the course of a comet be altered to reduce the effect of, or avoid, a
collision with Earth? First results show that comets are rather an “icy mud-balls” than a “dirty
snowballs’ as previously believed, because they contain twice as much dust as water.
Mission “Deep Impact”
In the scientific NASA-mission „Deep Impact“ (named after the blockbuster “Deep Impact”) a projectile (impactor) of about 300 kg launched from a space ship slammed into comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005
The asteroid Apophis
On April 13, 2029 the asteroid Apophis (named after the Egyptian serpent-like god of evil) having a size of about 300 m will pass the Earth at a distance of only 36650 km (location of our satellites, 1/10 of the distance to he moon). In the evening of this day we will see then this asteroid in Europe with our naked eye.
The Egyptian sun god Re attacking his opponent Apophis with a butcher knife
Name of Apophis
The co-discoverer of asteroid Apophis named it not because of the Egyptian god
Apophis, but probably after a character in the TV-series „Star Gate SG-1“
The actor Peter Williams as Apophis in the TV-series „StarGate SG-1“
Impact of Apophis
On 13 April, 2036 there will be a change of 1:8000 that Apophis slams into the
Pacific ocean. It would create a hole in the sea about 2500 m deep creating a tsunami of up to 20
m height at the Pacific coast lines. There exist now plans to send a transponder (location device like the ones in
aeroplanes) to determine the exact trajectory of Apophis. Afterwards a space ship
of about 4 tons could hit the asteroid and deflect it in such a way that it would miss
the Earth. That this is for the first time in the history of mankind is in principle accomplishable
was shown by the mission „Deep Impact“ to the comet Tempel 1
The Work with CISCI in the Class-room: an Action-
Research Project
Team: Christa Deinlein, Stefan Krejci, Brigitte Pagana-
Hammer, Sandra Sudhop
The project plan subject: physics
movie: Pitch Black
target group: students of 13 years (junior high school) in the 2nd physics - course
6 groups each of about 20 students
3 teachers
3different schools → two parallel courses with the same teacher same basic lesson plan (prepared together) individually elaborated by the
teachers and applied in their classes
Lesson plan (2 x 50 min)
1st session: 5’ introduction: eclipses 5’ clip (1st presentation) task: write down your observations, questions, … 5’ clip (2nd presentation) 20’ discussion, pictures of eclipses 5’ summary of the 1st session
2nd session group work group 1: collage group 2: science fiction short story Feedback & test
Additional didactic material
experiments
pictures
graphs
working sheets
Evaluation tools
video graphs
group work in class - students’ products (summery, collage, graphic
presentation of the phenomena shown in the movie, etc.)
test (added knowledge; equal for all students)
students‘ feedback (equal for all students)
teachers’ statement
Teachers opinion students are motivated and interested
new approach - starting from exciting experiences usually not correlated with school
stimulating for critical vision of movie scenes often considered a priori correct
interesting analyses and discussion
high attention and concentration
participation in the test and the feedback session was optional andout of the schedule – all students participated
complex content and scientific explanation (eclipses) was rather difficult for pupils of this age
no technical problems
